Guest Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 http://www.americascup.com/en/news/3/ne ... say-its-so Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 Yep foiling upwind and GD says they have gone over 50 knots down wind. Game on!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 Watch for the foiling tack Link to post Share on other sites
Dude 0 Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 ...yeah right R780 What next a foiling stall. Link to post Share on other sites
bushman 12 Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 What next a foiling stall. how about passing drinks around while foiling with out the coast guard watching Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 or some gold from the mine at the top mark Link to post Share on other sites
waikiore 400 Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Hmm Some of you that have been around the waterfront a year or two may recall a certain single handed cat foiling on the Waitemata-- and he could tack on the foils -- early 80's . So don't be too surprised... And that was just a keen amateur one G Baigent no less. Link to post Share on other sites
Deep Purple 512 Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Sure it wasn't David Knaggs? Link to post Share on other sites
Dude 0 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 No team has successfully foiled upwind for more that a few moments after a mark rounding. And in extreme bear away situations. Link to post Share on other sites
waikiore 400 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Yep Quite sure, David got his GBE going indecently quick for our speed trials with weight on stick out behind her, and many years later built his foiler quite a construction feat -- and once rigged something to behold. Link to post Share on other sites
Grinna 2 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 No team has successfully foiled upwind for more that a few moments after a mark rounding. And in extreme bear away situations. Are you sure of that? How do you define "successfully"? Link to post Share on other sites
Clipper 344 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 No team has successfully foiled upwind for more that a few moments after a mark rounding. And in extreme bear away situations. Quite a definative statement. Its lucky we have you around to tell us whats what. I noticed ETNZ at one point this morning doing 27knots upwind. Certainly have the speed to foil. I understand its just a VMG thing. In that they CAN foil 'upwind', but due to angles, may not be worth it. Link to post Share on other sites
waikiore 400 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Clipper bang on the money. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 They can foil upwaind, it's just they do 1 sideways for every one forward.... but that may have changed Link to post Share on other sites
Grinna 2 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 No team has successfully foiled upwind for more that a few moments after a mark rounding. And in extreme bear away situations. In light of the video footage from the second race today where both ETNZ and Luna Rossa were shown on broadcast television to be successfully foiling upwind for extended periods of time, would you like to revise this statement? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Interesting vid, do wwe know what LR were up to at the time, because if you look at the srparation NZ was putting a huge distance on them. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 LR were low and slow. check out the other video at the 2 minute mark Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Morrelli’s hot on foiling as the way to go forward in all things AC. “Most people don’t realize we’ve been dealing with foiling for almost four years, before the 2010 Cup," he says. "We designed the Nacra 20 that’s been in production for five years now, that had curved foils; prior to that we built an A-Cat with curved foils. We’ve been building power cats for 15 years with foils. People playing with catamarans have been playing with foiling for a long time.” We caught up with Morrelli for his insight on the big picture of the AC72 design: more here http://www.sailingworld.com/blogs/racin ... g-the-rule The 72 seems to be a designer’s dream and a sailor’s nightmare. How did you get to the boat we have today? GM: Most of the 72 was dictated by Russell [Coutts] and the Oracle guys. After the 2010 Oracle campaign, they retained us [morrelli & Melvin] to do some performance analysis on different sized trimarans— a trimaran being the original contender with a soft rig. We did all kinds of analysis on things from 60 to 90 feet—cost estimates, performance estimates, and providing them with a matrix of options there. Link to post Share on other sites
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